Building global collaboration in tropical wetland research

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 511-515

  Lukacs, George P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Global; Ramsar Convention; Tropical; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; RESEARCH WORK; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WETLAND;

EID: 77957256322     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-010-9192-0     Document Type: Article

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